CVE-2017-15601

high

Description

In GNU Libextractor 1.4, there is a heap-based buffer overflow in the EXTRACTOR_png_extract_method function in plugins/png_extractor.c, related to processiTXt and stndup.

References

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00000.html

https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libextractor/libextractor-1.6.tar.gz

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-10-18

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High